The Japan Wolf Association says returning wolves to the wild would help curb costly agricultural damage by deer, wild boar ...

The event was held to coincide with a special exhibition about the city and the animals that used to inhabit the area. The last known sighting of a Japanese wolf, one kept in captivity in Nara ...

The last verified Japanese wolf was killed in 1905 in Nara Prefecture, and since then, the animal has lived on only through a ...

Hinako has been an avid animal lover since she was 3, with a special interest in extinct species — particularly the Japanese wolf, an apex predator that disappeared over a century ago.

Digging further, she was able to piece together clear evidence showing M831 to be one of the two animals. She had been right; the yamainu was a Japanese wolf. Even with the published article ...

Confirmation of the sixth Japanese wolf specimen was possible only because the animal was preserved for a century. “This research project reaffirms the importance of treating any specimen with ...

UTSUNOMIYA -- Nasu Animal Kingdom in east Japan's Tochigi Prefecture announced on June 24 that two Arctic wolf pups were born last month -- a first for a Japanese zoo. Arctic wolf pups born on May ...